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DLI highlights worker rehabilitation, compliance training and special compensation fund cases
Summary
Commissioner Blissenbach highlighted return-to-work services, compliance training for self-insured employers and the special compensation fund that covers workers injured while employed by uninsured employers.
At the Minnesota Senate Labor Committee hearing, Nicole Blissenbach, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry, described several workers’ compensation activities and recent case examples to illustrate the department’s work.
Blissenbach said the department’s vocational rehabilitation unit (VRU) helps injured workers return to work by providing medical management, vocational counseling and placement assistance. She described a case in which an injured worker with a severe concussion was…
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